Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Irish Film Board — Lord Edward Street

office
View what I want to do
Irish Film Board — Lord Edward Street
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Attached thirteen-bay three-storey over basement former labour exchange, built 1915, with three-bay pedimented end bays to front (south) elevation, with top storey added c.1960. Historically used as Offices of the Revenue Commissioners, now in use as offices and apartments. Flat roof, hidden behind Portland stone balustrade, cast-iron rainwater goods. Modillion cornice over ashlar granite walls having granite platband with channelled granite walls to ground floor and raised ashlar granite plinth course to front, double-height Ionic pilasters and entablatures to end bays. Ashlar cladding to upper floor over yellow brick walls, laid in English bond, with ashlar granite quoins to east elevation. Square-headed window openings having carved granite sills, three-over-six pane and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, carved granite architraves to those to central bays. Square-headed basement lights with multiple pane steel framed windows. Square-headed door openings, recessed within round-headed openings having rusticated granite voussoirs, and keystones, doorcases comprising carved granite architraves and cornices, replacement timber doors, those to end bays having plain fanlights, that to centre with dressed granite tympanum. Located on north side of Lord Edward Street.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.